When I think of our requests we make of God, I find my own requests break down into a few categories - Personal needs, Family concerns, Parish concerns, and Hopes…
Welcome to the second day of the Dormition Fast! The wisdom of the fasting disciplines of the Church are meant to reinforce the reality that unless the faith is holistically…
Everybody else was squirming. They were obviously having a hard time with the information and seemed to rather have been elsewhere. But I was at peace. It just made sense…
Alexandre Solzhenitsyn once said "We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap." I wish I had learned this earlier in my life. I would have avoided some painful…
It seems we humans have an ingrained "love"of fighting, defending ourselves, and drama. We are really good at it. Just look at the conflicts that are raging today in our…
There's just no substitute for contemplation. But it seems our modern world is moving at such a break neck speed that contemplation is impossible! That's why authentic faith is the…
For years I batted around words like "faith" and "believe" with such frequency and then discovered that I really wasn't sure what these words meant! Imagine my surprise while, as…
"Did you hear..." That's the beginning of a moment that rarely turns out good! And that's because this is usually the beginning of a conversation that is more gossip than…
It's just who I am. I remember my time at an Evangelical Protestant school for my undergraduate degree, and the 2 years of homiletical classes (how to give a sermon).…
There is a story about a great man. He had searched the world over for wisdom. He had gone to gurus, and sought out great religious leaders and learned philosophers.…